Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.